Everyone is at risk from an attack of gout

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Growing evidence that gout is linked to health issues that can predispose people to an early heart attack or stroke

Gout may conjure up colourful caricatures but, as anyone who has experienced
an attack will be only too quick to point out, it’s no laughing matter. And
it is not just the pain — there is growing evidence that gout is linked to a
number of other health issues that can predispose people to an early heart
attack or stroke. And, as a result of our indulgent lifestyles, it is
becoming both more common, and striking earlier.

At least half a million people in the UK have gout and most of them fit the
stereotypical image of the rotund middle-aged man,